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Composer of the Week: Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

(1844-1908)
A second chance to hear
Radio 3's programmes from Christmas 1991 exploring Rimsky-Korsakov's fantastic world with the help of the fairy tales and legends that sparked his imagination. Today his orchestral works Skazka and Antar are introduced by the Pushkin poem and the Arabian legend which inspired them.
Narrator Joanna Wake. Rpt See also tonight 9.25pm

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Narrator:
Joanna Wake.
Source: Radio Times

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